A book of myths (Dent Dutton Classics, no.66)

Some of these stories come from ancient Egypt, Babylon and Phoenicia; many were told again and again by th e sto ry-loving Greeks, and became the basis for some of their greatest poems and plays. A few of the stories told by the Hittites, the Cretans and the Phrygians have never been retold before. Not only will readers young and old find the famou s my th s of Isis and Osiris, Prometheus, Demeter and Persephone, Hermes, Pallas Athene, and the Gods of Asgard here - even the Death of Baldur - but others as interesting though hard to find and little known - stories of Marduk and Tammuz and Isht ar (B aby lon), of Telepinu, the strange god of a strange people, the Hittites; of Mithras the Persian; unusual stories of the Egyptian sun-god Ra, and Apollo, the healing god of the Greeks, ranging with forgotten tales of Britomartis from Minoan C rete, and of Jan us from the earliest days of Rome.